I greatly admire the Observable team and all the amazing work being done here, but I couldn’t agree more with @muhmud! Like many others, I found myself on this thread as a result of a lot of frustration.
I agree that Observable may be the way to go, and I do agree with a lot of the advantages being presented - but the problem is (and I think I see many others expressing similar views): why, oh why, can’t we have the copies of the ‘regular’ code that we are used to, in addition to the observable versions? I think that being able to compare old with new would drastically ease the learning process for so many people. Of course after Observable becomes more mainstream and understood, the old code can be removed. As it stands right now, I feel like I would have to suspend a lot of my work in order to fully dive into and embrace Observable - unfortunately that is just not an option for many programmers like myself.
If there is a reason why the Observable team does not want to provide ‘regular’ code with Observable code, it would be great to know what the reason is - part of the frustration comes from feeling that this is such a small ask, and yet we’re not getting it.
Thanks again for the awesome work.